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Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:00:00 ESTPlease click here to sign a Change.org petition calling on the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) to end its financial support for Islamist Relief. Islamist Watch has uncovered further evidence of anti-Semitism promoted by senior officials ofAnother Academic Mangling of My Views on Islamhttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/08/another-mangling-of-views-about-islam
Sat, 5 Aug 2017 00:00:00 ESTOriginally published under the title "Academic Malfeasance: Another Mangling of Views about Islam." Michelle Sandhoff, an assistant professor of sociology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has written a book titled Service in a Time of Suspicion:Churchill, Hitler, and Islamhttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/07/churchill-hitler-and-islam
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 00:00:00 ESTWinston Churchill disparaged the impact of Islam on Muslims in his 1899 book, The River War: How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog,Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zinki Splits from Hay'at Tahrir al-Shamhttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/07/harakat-nour-al-din-al-zinki
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00:00 ESTHarakat Nour al-Din al-Zinki (The Nour al-Din al-Zinki Movement: NZM) – an Islamist faction originating from Aleppo that once received support from the CIA's program of backing 'vetted' Syrian rebels that now seems set to be phased out – gained aFawj Ra'ad al-Mahdi: East Aleppo Militia Expansionhttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/06/fawj-raad-al-mahdi-east-aleppo-militia-expansion
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:00:00 ESTThe Local Defence Forces network, set up and supported by Iran, has tens of thousands of people under its wing in Syria, going by the numbers given in internal documents. The statistics indicate that the network is most prominent in Aleppo province,Katibat Dir' al-Watan Nasheed: Translation and Analysishttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/06/katibat-dir-al-watan-nasheed
Sat, 17 Jun 2017 00:00:00 ESTFollowing on from my report on the new Syria-Lebanon border militia outfit called Katibat Dir' al-Watan, here is a nasheed from the group. The melody and performance are by Ghassan Ja'afar, whom I characterized in the original piece as a second deputy.The U.S.-Iranian confrontation on the Syria-Iraq Borders: Interview with an Iraqi Militia Officialhttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/06/us-iran-confrontation-interview-with-iraqi-militia-official
Sat, 10 Jun 2017 00:00:00 ESTBesides the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces operations with U.S. coalition support to capture the Islamic State's de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa, the other major hot-spot to watch at the moment in Syria is the Syrian desert border area between"Dawlati Baqiya": New Nasheed from the Islamic State's Ajnad Mediahttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/06/dawlati-baqiya-new-isis-nasheed
Wed, 7 Jun 2017 00:00:00 ESTThe term 'baqiya' ('remaining') is one of the most familiar words associated with the Islamic State, dating back to the first statehood predecessor of the Islamic State: namely, the Islamic State of Iraq under Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. The idea of 'baqiya'The Six-Day War: Personal Recollectionshttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/06/the-six-day-war-personal-recollections
Mon, 5 Jun 2017 00:00:00 ESTFor my interpretation of some consequences of the fighting in June 1967, see today's article, "What If: Fifty Years After the Six-Day War." On a personal note, I have three memories of those six days, which I experienced at the age of 17 in Cambridge,Ansar al-Shari'a in Libya Dissolves Itselfhttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/05/ansar-al-sharia-in-libya-dissolves-itself
Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 ESTAnsar al-Shari'a ("Supporters of Shari'a") was once Libya's most familiar jihadi organization in the post-Gaddafi environment, widely suspected of involvement in the attack on the U.S. government presence in Benghazi in 2012. It was closely linked toHawaii Lawyer: Trump Exec Order Violates 1st Amendment Because Honor Killings Are Islamichttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/05/trump-exec-order-honor-killings-islamic
Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 ESTThe lawyer representing the State of Hawaii in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today has stated the collection of data with regards to honor killings should be removed from President Trump's executive order in order to "passLicensing Exam for Islamic State Pharmacists Is No Cakewalkhttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/05/isis-qualifying-exams-for-pharmacists-are-no-joke
Sun, 7 May 2017 00:00:00 ESTOriginally published under the title "Could You Open a Pharmacy in Islamic State Territory?" As should be familiar by now, the Islamic State (ISIS) has a health department as part of its bureaucracy (Diwan al-Siha). From the documentary evidence,"Heed the call"- New Nasheed from Islamic State's Ajnad Mediahttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/05/heed-the-call-new-nasheed-from-islamic-state
Thu, 4 May 2017 00:00:00 EST"Heed the call" (Arabic: labbu al-nida') is the latest production from the Islamic State's Ajnad Media, which puts out Arabic nasheeds and recitations of parts of the Qur'an. The nasheed is interesting because it touches in a general sense on the factNo to Bombing Syriahttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/04/no-to-bombing-syria
Fri, 7 Apr 2017 00:00:00 ESTThe Obama Administration rightly stayed out of Syria through six painful, grisly years of civil war there. Yes, the fighting has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced millions. Yes, the uncontrolled migration of Syrians to Europe caused deepHistorians Run Amokhttp://www.meforum.org/blog/2017/04/historians-run-amok
Tue, 4 Apr 2017 00:00:00 ESTThe eminent historian Niall Ferguson has devastatingly skewered his (and my) field of study in a talk for the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, subsequently published as "The Decline and Fall of History." He starts with the empirical fact that